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Let's work on this one
Sat, 2006-11-25 18:44 — Toadkiller_Dog (not verified)I'd like to just comment on this - my work is sporadic and incomplete, so it's just easier to try and work on yours. I'm not interested in conversion per se - so I'll probably leave alone anything that turns SF characters into GURPS ones, and just comment on the racial templates and maybe later on equipment if we get that far.
YBR - +2 is probably fine - my notes have +2 as a starter for the same reason (it's a big jump in GURPS) but since you had a +4 to hit listed about I figured that was reasonable enough. Let me dig up POWERS and see how we can set this up. Let's try +2 DX limited and see where it goes. I'll post more here. I'll try to nail down the Yazarians and Sathar before we go anywhere else.
Oh yeah, for the racial enemy, Vow is a good idea. I liked it as a positive, so I generally linked it with Higher Purpose....folks who take a broad enemy get a wider Higher Purpose but get a bigger Vow or even Obsession if they real go all-out. So, Higher Purpose (Defeat the Sathar) would be legal, buttake a -15 Vow or Obsession and probably take the rest of your life and all of your time.
Sathar legs - that's not the only picture, actually. The miniatures are split between two minis in the Spacefarers series that have the sather weilding weapons with all four tentacles while upright, and the Player Characters box set had one in a space suit and one without, using weapons with the upper tentacles and standing on the lower ones. There is a picture in Sparspawn of Volturnus that shows marching Sathar, but it isn't clear if they're using their tentacles as feet, to carry stuff, or not. So it's split, but it's not like it is one picture in one book. Sathar pictures in general are hard to find - check the various modules, generally even a Sathar-heavy one will have one or two pictures of Sathar. The War Machine, IIRC, had NO pictures at all...
Since I own the minis from the Player Characters set and have the pictures in the book, I generally use them as "feet." Makes it easier than showing the players a Sathar mini and saying "actually, this miniature is wrong, he's standing on his lower body and using the lower limbs to fire a rifle, and the upper arms for...well, I don't know what. ;)